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A website and online presence are more important for your company now than ever before. Unfortunately, the increased reliance and use of technology by businesses have led to a major increase in data breaches and hacks. There are many different kinds of attacks that hackers can try to pull off, and all can hurt your […]
Famous Email service provider Click2mail suffering from a massive data breach that leaked their customer sensitive personal information, and the attackers used the stolen email addresses to send spam emails. October 4th, 2019, Click2Mail learned that their customer’s data were being used by unknown parties who have abused the customer’s email address to send the […]
“There is no way to tell his story without telling my own. And if his story is a confession, then so is mine.” – Captain Benjamin L. Willard, Apocalypse Now. 16:05, Atrium Bar President Hotel, London – Having spent a quarter of a century in information technology and thirteen years in one uniform or another […]
For many companies, data compliance regulations are a huge burden, and one that’s only getting heavier. The GDPR regulations introduced in the EU last year were just the tip of an iceberg of customer confidentiality and permission requirements. Hot on its heels comes the California Consumer Protection Act (CCPA), due to become effective in January […]
We are living in the era of the digital economy where companies are collecting and storing tons of valuable customer data on a daily basis. As it has turned out, data is an important input in the competitiveness, growth, and revenue generation for any company across industries. But every valuable resource has its vulnerabilities, and […]
Data protection specialists report a data breach at customer support software company Zendesk that would have compromised information from about 10k accounts of Support and Chat services created prior to November 2016. The company is currently notifying its customers. Zendesk services are used by nearly 150k companies around the world, including Uber, Airbnb and Shopify. […]
If you have an account with the Comodo discussion board and support forums, also known as ITarian Forum, you should change your password immediately. Cybersecurity company Comodo has become one of the major victims of a recently disclosed vBulletin 0-day vulnerability, exposing login account information of over nearly 245,000 users registered with the Comodo Forums […]
PCI DSS Non-Compliance impacting the business in various ways and leads to a variety of consequences. PCI DSS is a set of information security standards for corporations that help safeguard payment card data from data loss, theft, or other accidents. It helps ensure trustworthy transactions by your merchants or their customers. PCI DSS is not […]
Data protection specialists report that DoorDash has become the victim of a data breach incident. Through a post on its official blog, the food delivery company reported that an unidentified group of hackers managed to extract about 4.8 million customers, employees and delivery histories records. Among the millions of records exposed during the incident are: […]
Do you use DoorDash frequently to order your food online? If yes, you are highly recommended to change your account password right now immediately. DoorDash—the popular on-demand food-delivery service—today confirmed a massive data breach that affects almost 5 million people using its platform, including its customers, delivery workers, and merchants as well. DoorDash is a […]
DoorDash announced a data breach that impacts 4.9 million consumers, Dashers, and merchants who signed up with the platform on or before April 5, 2018. The company has learned an unusual activity earlier this month, they have launched an investigation with assistance from external security researchers. The investigation determines an unauthorized third party to DoorDash […]
IT system audit specialists mention that the website Yahoo has created to present compensation claim due to the massive data breaches (which affected more than 3 billion users worldwide) is already online, although it’s not all good news. On this website, Yahoo notes that most users residing outside the US and Israel will not be […]
According to data protection specialists, Yahoo is about to close a $117.5 million USD settlement to end the class action against them due to a series of security breaches that affected the company’s users between 2012 and 2016. If you operated a Yahoo account during that period, you are likely to be eligible to receive […]
Ecuador officials have arrested the general manager of IT consulting firm Novaestrat after the personal details of almost the entire population of the Republic of Ecuador left exposed online in what seems to be the most significant data breach in the country’s history. Personal records of more than 20 million adults and children, both dead […]
An investigation by a group of information security experts from the firm vpnMentor discovered a massive data breach that has affected more than 20 million citizens of Ecuador; it appears that the exposure of this information has occurred due to a database with poor security measures. The researchers, led by Noam Rotem and Ran Locar, […]
Facebook confirmed a new Instagram data-leaking bug that puts user data under risk. The vulnerability lets hackers access sensitive information such as account details and phone numbers. The vulnerability in Instagram was discovered by an Israeli hacker with Twitter handle @ZHacker13. The vulnerability opens the gateway for threat actors to abuse the user data. How […]
Hello Ladies, let’s talk about periods, privacy, and Facebook. Are you using an app on your smartphone to keep tracks on your periods? Well, it’s worrying, because it might be sharing your extremely sensitive information like menstrual cycle and sexual activities with Facebook. A new investigative report from UK-based advocacy group Privacy International revealed how […]
Not only large tech companies, enterprise services, banking institutions or government organizations are affected by the activities of malicious hackers. This time, web application security specialists reported a data breach in a third-party service that has resulted in the data leakage of millions of customers of the major French cosmetics company Yves Rocher. The incident […]
XKCD—one of the most popular webcomic platforms known for its geeky tech humor and other science-laden comic strips on romance, sarcasm, math, and language—has suffered a data breach exposing data of its forum users. The security breach occurred two months ago, according to security researcher Troy Hunt who alerted the company of the incident, with […]
Without the necessary protection measures, data breaches can occur in any company, regardless of size or branch. Pentesting specialists reported on a cybersecurity incident at the Australian branch of the TGI Friday’s restaurant chain, exposing the information of thousands of its customers. All affected customers, mainly members of MyFriday, the chain rewards program, were notified […]
A new data breach incident has been reported. According to information security services specialists, Foxit Software, developers of the popular PDF reader app Foxit, has suffered a security incident in which its servers were compromised by a group of hackers who managed to extract users’ information. The company hasn’t made any official statements about the […]